Gianpiero Lambiase has been c🎐redited for the manner of his interactions with Max Verstappen.

Verstappen and h❀is race eng🐎ineer are well-known within Formula 1 for their feisty radio conversations.

Lambiase, in particular, is feted for his cool and collect💞ed responses to Verstappen’s often fiery words.

“He’s an engineer like I was,” Rob Smed𒉰ley told the Red Flags Podcast.

Smedley worked for Jordan, Ferrari and Williams in the F1 paddock, most notably as the race engineer for Felipe Massa♍.

He explained the unique role of a race engineer who must converse ♛with a stressed driver via radio during a grand prix.

“When I first started, Gary Anderson said to me ‘you’ve got to be pissing i🎃n each other’s po🌳ckets’,” Smedley said.

“There is no hierarchy here, it’s two guy𒅌s trying to get the best out of this thing.

“It’s a pressure cooker, too. You’ve got to have a coꦇmpletelꦐy open relationship.

“Sometimes you will get 🀅pissed off with him, or he’ll get pissed off with you.

“But it’s like any kind of deep relationship. You have those moments then, fiꩲve minutes later, it’s all okay.

“That’s what it should be like 🌳between an engine🌺er and a driver when you get the relationship right."

Gianpiero Lambiase praised for holding Max Verstappen to account

“GP tells him like it iꦯs, and Max will fire back," Smedley continued꧙.

“One thing I like about GP, which is similar to how I always felt, is that sometimes drivers can be sociopathic with t❀heir views on the team.

“These are guys wh🧔o stay up until midnight working for you.

“You’ve heard GP a couple of times - and I have alsಞo said it to my drivers - is that ‘you need to go to the garage and apologise to the guys, because how you’ve been behaving is not adult, you have not been a nice person’.

“GP has d💯one that with Max, and I certainly did it in my time.

“The way Gianpiero conducts himself on the radio is a reflection on their 🌠real relationship.

“They both rely on each other fully, and trust each other fꦕully.

“Whenever I d𓃲elivered a message, I remembered that it’s not called ‘Massa Formula 1’ or ‘🐻Smedley Formula 1’ or ‘Alonso Formula 1’. It’s called Ferrari Formula 1.

“Our pay cheques have Scuderia F𒉰errari on them, that’s w🍨ho we work for.

“You’ve got to get the balance right. A race engineer canno💦t be 100% focused on what the team needs, otherwise he’s not optimising his vehicle.

“If you’re not optimising the package, you do a disservice to the team. It’s a real tightrope of op๊timising the car, but not overstepping the mark by doing it to the detriment of thღe team.”

Lambiase, who has been alongside Verstappen for each of his four consecutive drivers’ championships, will be rewarඣded with a new role at Red Bull this year𒀰.

He will become their Head of Racing, part💦 of a res♎tructure due to Jonathan Wheatley’s exit.

But crucially Lambia🔯se will still be th🅷e voice in Verstappen’s ear during races.